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...because it seems people fall into a pack-mentality pretty quickly (re: echo chambers, the internet), in which no individual is accountable, but instead complacency is.

If what it takes to invalidate the pack is to call lying to a pedophile unethically fulfilling the trust of protecting your child (as opposed to ethically failing to do so) -- how does that not reflect well on my virtue?

I'd say what I'd feel free to say to any salesman: I don't know him, nor owe it to him to answer his question. Then report him go the police to start a public record of his illegal, predatory behavior.

This isn't to say I'd refuse to do something unethical, like wrestle him for his wallet-ID to verify who he is. Just that I wouldn't refuse to call such what it is, which is unethical.

I'd say what I'd feel free to say to any salesman: I don't know him, nor owe it to him to answer his question. Then report him go the police to start a public record of his illegal, predatory behavior.

What if that wasn't an option? What if, again (i seem to repeat myself quite a lot here), the only options available was to lie in order to send him away or be complicit in the rape of your own daughter?

This isn't to say I'd refuse to do something unethical, like wrestle him for his wallet-ID to verify who he is. Just that I wouldn't refuse to call such what it is, which is unethical.

Why would it be unethical to restrain and identify a man who was going to rape your daughter?